How does Bruce Lee keep fit?

Bruce Lee is convinced that forearm training can improve his wrestling and punching ability. "He is a forearm coach," Linda once said with a smile. "Once someone puts forward a new forearm training plan, he will try his best to see it."

Bruce Lee once commissioned his old friend george lee to make several "jigs" specially for him to increase the extra strength needed in training. The purpose of doing this is to improve one's endurance. "Bruce Lee asked me to make training equipment for him," george lee said. "I did it according to Bruce Lee's design, but I'm not stupid." George smiled and said, "I know the equipment used by Bruce Lee must be efficient, so I made it for him and kept it for myself."

Another close friend of Bruce Lee, Bob Wall, played roles in three films of Bruce Lee. He recalled: "Bruce Lee attached great importance to forearm training, which accounted for a large proportion in the whole muscle strength training. He has an extremely thick and even forearm that I have never seen before. I mean, Bruce Lee has a big forearm! He has incredible strength-wrist strength, finger strength and even the whole arm are unparalleled. "

1965, Bruce Lee played the role of Garten in the CBS TV series The Green Hornet, and Li and the protagonist Van Williams soon became good friends. They all have a pair of thick, deformed and developed forearms. The difference is that Li's big forearm comes from long-term targeted bodybuilding and martial arts training, while Williams' big forearm is the result of his years of participation in cattle training performances and motorcycle cross-country competitions.

Williams is about 1.85 meters (6 feet 1 inch) tall and weighs about 95 kilograms (2 10 pounds). He is the only known person whose wrist strength is greater than that of Bruce Lee. They once had a wrist contest, in which their arms were fully extended, their wrists were intertwined, and then they tried counterclockwise at the same time. Of course, Williams moved Bruce Lee's wrist. "But there is an obvious problem, that is, my weight is nearly 40 pounds higher than Bruce Lee's (about18kg), so he is still a superman with big forearms that I have never seen before," Williams said with emotion.

Except Williams, everyone who challenged Bruce Lee's wrist was under his command. Jackson said that Bruce Lee once joked that he wanted to be the "world champion" in the wrist competition.

"If you ever touch Bruce Lee's forearm, it's like grabbing a baseball bat," taky kimura said.

Bruce Lee is crazy about forearm strength training, and he is honing his forearm every day. "Bruce Lee said that his forearm is quite dull, so he must exercise more than every day to make it stronger." Enosando said.

Williams recalled: "On weekends, Bruce Lee often brought Linda and Guo Hao to my house, and he also often brought some gadgets aimed at strengthening this part or that part of his body. He never smokes or drinks. He is elegant and sunny. He is a very popular person. I saw him for the last time about the day before his death. At that time, he looked good and his muscles were as strong as stones! "

Bruce Lee also has great respect for Williams. There is a joke that Bruce Lee posted a poster on the back window of his car, which read "This car is protected by the Green Hornet".

When The Green Hornet was filmed step by step, Bruce Lee devoted all his energy to training. Change the overall fitness plan, reduce the number of equipment for each exercise and increase the number of exercises in the same period.

abdominal muscle

Bruce Lee's abdomen is also a prominent position in his physique. Mito Uhra, publisher of Black Belt magazine, recalled: "Bruce Lee often thinks that if the abdomen is not developed enough, then don't rush to participate in actual combat."

"Bruce Lee is crazy about abdominal muscle training, too," Linda said. "He often does a series of sports training such as sit-ups, cycling, leg lifts and V-stretching, which can exercise abdominal muscles."

Chuck Rolex recalled that once he went to Bruce Lee's house, he saw him doing leg lifts and flying swallows in bodybuilding, and at the same time he bounced Brandon Lee with his stomach.

"Li often does a lot of sit-ups to strengthen his strong and developed abdomen," Herb Jackson said. "He told me that the correct sit-up method requires not only the ups and downs of the upper body, but also the bending and stretching of the body, just like rolling paper." Bruce Lee thinks this is very effective for developing abdominal muscles. When doing so, he can make his elbows contact with the opposite knee joint under the condition of whole body bending.

Bruce Lee once invented a hard exercise, which he called "flag-raising". Li was lying on his back on the bench, grasping the vertical handle attached to the bench with both hands, taking his shoulders as the fulcrum, and at the same time trying his best to raise his back, knees and feet, leaving the bench and hanging in the air.

Bolo Yeung, who played a supporting role in the film enter the dragon, witnessed Li's flag-raising posture: his shoulder blades were supported at one end of the stool, and his legs and upper body were hung horizontally on the stool. "He can maintain his level in mid-air," Bolu explained. "He really convinced me. I don't think there will be anyone like him in 100. "

According to Linda, Bruce Lee's waistline directly benefits from his abdominal exercise. His waistline reaches 28 inches (about 0.7 1 1m) at its thickest and 26 inches (about 0.7 10m) at its thinnest.

Muscle group limit-basic movement

Bruce Lee doesn't seem to have an ounce of fat in every inch of his body. The reason is that it is "restricted" by his training institution. However, he doesn't consume body fat by doing a lot of dumbbell exercises like many bodybuilders. He realized that exercising with larger muscle groups can improve the "extreme" level.

Another result is that Bruce Lee is an enthusiastic advocate of cardiovascular exercise. For a long time, this kind of exercise has universality in keeping fit. A similar exercise program in Bruce Lee consists of running for 6- 15-45 minutes and 6- 12 miles (about 10-20 kilometers).

Bob Wall said: "Bruce Lee is a pretty good" athlete "who runs five miles (about eight kilometers), but he is still a person who constantly challenges himself. He can run in the opposite direction. He can run 1 mile (about 1.609 km) in the wind, then walk 1 mile and then run 1 mile. Anyway, I feel that running with Bruce Lee is a difficult sport, because Bruce Lee is an all-around athlete and it is not easy to train with him! "

Jabbar, who participated in basic training, said: "1When we were training together in the summer of 1970, I often watched him running back and forth on Roscomar Street in Barelare, which was a hilly road, but Bruce Lee liked it very much. We will run like this before every formal training. "

Bruce Lee often does running and cycling alternately. According to Mito Uyehara, "Bruce Lee usually completes 10 mile (about 16.09 km) pedaling exercise in 45 minutes until sweat drips into the pit on the ground below."

Herb Jackson recalled Bruce Lee's stationary bicycle practice and said that Li wore a sauna steam bath belt called Weiderwait during the whole practice. This belt is made of chloroprene rubber. Every time he gets on the bus, he has to wrap it around to increase the difficulty and improve his endurance, and then push it hard until he sweats all over. When he lasts about 10 minutes, the sauna belt will tighten the waist and abdomen muscles together. To help the burning and decomposition of fat. Whether this method of removing fat will work or not remains to be studied. Anyway, Bruce Lee won't find excess fat! "

According to Enosando, "Bruce Lee often gets new ways to become" tired "by reading related muscle magazines. Once the relevant items are found, he will read the full text and mark it, and then try to test it. If he finds that what he said is inconsistent with the results, he will give up this project and conduct other research. "

Bruce Lee's other favorite cardiovascular exercise is skipping rope. He often does skipping rope for three rounds 1 minute.

Instinctive connection

Experiments are the basis of all Bruce Lee's training methods. He once said: "Look for your own experience, absorb what is useful, eliminate what is useless, and add what is particularly suitable for you."

By the end of 1960s, Bruce Lee's physique had begun to take shape. In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee became what we call "instinctive exerciser". As an explanation of the instinctive principle, he said: "Every training should be carried out according to the needs of the body."

In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee actually developed in an eclectic way. According to Bob Wall, I visited Bruce Lee's home many times before he died. "Every room in his family has some training equipment. As long as he is interested, he will train. Oh! His pants don't have any cars, they are all training equipment. Everywhere he goes, even in his office, there are dumbbells and barbells. It is no exaggeration to say that Bruce Lee's training is everywhere! "

Wall said that by that time, the main content of Bruce Lee's physical fitness will be "training for two days or even taking a day off", but I also know that Bruce Lee will often make some changes. Generally speaking, the training content consists of three parts, 15 events. At the same time, he also does a lot of skipping. He usually does one first, and then another. He will never do angle training twice in one exercise. He always tries to do a lot of groping training in different ways.

Joe Bodner said: "Bruce Lee is willing to try to do all kinds of sit-ups and sit-ups (barbells), and he also uses the technology of Wade's light/heavy principle here. That is, do 10 group 160 pounds (about 72.5 kilograms) barbells on the days of heavy exercise training; On the day of low-intensity training, do 20~30 groups 100 pounds (about 45.4 kilograms) barbells. "

Joe Bodner also admitted that Bruce Lee's recommendation was only a partial experimental success in the field of violent movement. "He likes this very intense aspect," Joe Bodner said. "Sometimes, you only need the last 3 inches of the movement to make a recommendation, and other three-dimensional training is also used like this."

Unfortunately, when Bruce Lee's evening training became more and more spontaneous, his exercise records became less and less. In the last few years of his life, his training content can only give us a vague concept!

According to Linda Lee, Bruce Lee's physique has become quite thin in the second half of 197 1! "At 1973, I thought he was in good health, but it was almost impossible to start his training from 1972," she recalled. "When we were in Hong Kong, he made one movie after another and didn't have time to do the training he used to like."

Flexibility in "Real Power"-Extensibility

Flexibility is also an essential training factor in Bruce Lee's fitness content. Otherwise, kicking a 300 kg sandbag to the ceiling will definitely break the tendons. Bruce Lee thinks that warm-up and stretching are absolutely important in his training, so he has been training hard in this field for a long time.

1970, sadly, kicking, boxing, running and even lifting weights were not easy for Bruce Lee, because Bruce Lee finished135kg barbell exercise in the morning, and because he didn't do it well in advance, he injured the fourth sacral nerve behind him and had to stay in bed for three months.

Later, Bruce Lee was told by the doctor that he would no longer be able to engage in martial arts training. Of course, Bruce Lee did not give in to this conclusion, and finally proved that the expert's judgment was wrong for him. But it is worth mentioning that Bruce Lee no longer despises the warm-up and stretching in training.

A considerable legacy

Rome seneca once said, "Life, if you know how to use it, will be quite long." If so, Bruce Lee's short life can be described as long. For us, there is very little we can do.